Cost effective heating

mogadon

I'm working at home at the moment, and unfortunately I am having to work in the coldest room in the house. Because I am just sat round at the computer all day, I am really feeling the cold, and I've got the heating on virtually all day. (It's an old solid wall 3 bed house which doesn't help)

As the weather is only going to get colder, I am wondering what the best way is to keep warm. Up till now I've been putting the gas central heating on, but turning the radiator stats down low in most of the other rooms, although I don't always remember to turn them down . There's one rad with no TRV in the bathroom, so that just blazes out.

But today we had the CH off, because the plumber had the water off, so I had an oil filled electric radiator type thing, and I was surprised how well it warmed the room up. It's got a thermostat (and a timer if I can work out how to use it), and 3 settings, 800w, 1200w, 2000w.

I was thinking it might be cheaper to turn the gas central heating off, and use the electric heater instead. Probably having it up on full till the room was warm, and then turning it down to 800w when it reached temperature.

Is there any simple way of calculating the rough costs of the two methods?

ormus

not easy to calculate for each room.
the gas will cost approx 2/2.50 quid per day. thats for the whole house and the hot water though.
the electric heater will cost approx 11p per hour. (at 1kw setting).